Texas Rep. Louie Gohmert appeared on The Heritage Foundation’s “Istook Live!” radio show this morning, where he said the shooting in Aurora, Colo., was an attack on Judeo-Christian beliefs and queried why no one in the theater had a gun with which to stop the shooter.

The Huffington Post reported that Gohmert was asked why such “senseless” attacks occur. The Tyler Republican responded by saying that a “senseless crazy act of a derelict” had ties to “ongoing attacks on Judeo-Christian beliefs.”

“Some of us happen to believe that when our founders talked about guarding our virtue and freedom, that that was important,” Gohmert said. “Whether it’s John Adams saying our Constitution was made only for moral and religious people … Ben Franklin, only a virtuous people are capable of freedom, as nations become corrupt and vicious they have more need of masters. We have been at war with the very pillars, the very foundation of this country.”

Though the host of the radio program, Ernest Istook, who is also a former congressman from Oklahoma, stepped in to quickly add that the motive and religious beliefs of the gunman are unknown, Gohmert said the shooting was a “terrorist act” that may have been avoided if the country had greater ties to God.

“People say … where was God in all of this?” Gohmert said. “We’ve threatened high school graduation participations, if they use God’s name, they’re going to be jailed … I mean that kind of stuff. Where was God? What have we done with God? We don’t want him around. I kind of like his protective hand being present.”

Gohmert also suggested that had someone in the theater been carrying a gun, the tragedy could have been lessened. Colorado laws allow for citizens to carry concealed guns.

“It does make me wonder, with all those people in the theater, was there nobody that was carrying a gun that could have stopped this guy more quickly?” Gohmert said.

A Democratic Party leader in Texas blasted Gohmert also for his part in a letter-writing effort questioning the loyalty of some Arab-Americans in the Obama administration.

Instead of working on behalf of the people of Tyler, Gohmert keeps shining an embarrassing light on Texas,” added Brannon,” said Texas Democratic Party Executive Director Bill Brannon.

And CBS News reported that New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, who called for gun control reform earlier today, called Gohmert’s remarks “nonsensical.”

“To arm everybody and have the wild west all the time is one of the more nonsensical things you can say,” Bloomberg said. “This person – I don’t know what his motives are, I don’t know him and I’m not here to impugn him or anyone else. It just does not make any sense.”

“”The bottom line is if we had fewer guns, we would have a lot fewer murders. And if you go and look, there is no other developed country in the world, Bob, that has as many guns as it has people. Do you really think you’d be safe if anybody in the audience could pull out a gun and start shooting? I don’t think so,” Bloomberg continued.